A formal treatment of poker: hand combinatorics, equity, game-theoretic equilibria and bankroll mathematics, testing how much of 'good instincts' at the table actually survives translation into a provable claim.
What you will do
You will spend the semester turning specific pieces of poker folklore into either a theorem or a retraction. Each week takes one thing strong players say by instinct — that a hand is worth playing, that a fold was correct, that an opponent is bluffing — and asks what has to be true about probability, information and incentives for that instinct to survive contact with a computed number. You leave with worked derivations for the results that hold, and a named list of the ones that don't.
Who it is for
This assumes comfort with basic probability and the patience for combinatorics and algebra worked by hand; no poker experience and no programming are required. It suits someone more interested in why a play is correct than in whether it wins — if you are after strategy coaching, this course was never trying to be that.